It’s a curriculum that teaches teenagers skills and values
they’ll need in the adult world they’re about to enter.

It walks them through processes like....

¨researching a place to live

¨figuring out health insurance

¨understanding credit

¨learning about basic investing

.... with an attitude of
prudence, and a goal of minimizing debt.

It also reviews concepts they’ll need for....

¨getting along with family, friends,
coworkers and clients

¨finding a spouse

¨living their values, and making sure
those values are reflected in their work

.... and helps
them reflect on the principles you’ve taught them since they were small.

Literature and mathematics are important, but
so is getting ready to take on the adult world. Barbara Frank designed this
curriculum for her own teenagers so they would have some preparation for
living on their own. They worked hard and learned a lot, and are now
independent young adults. She hopes that Life Prep
for Homeschooled Teenagers helps you prepare your own homeschooled
teenager for life “out of the nest.”

More about Life
Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers

Most homeschooling parents place a lot of emphasis on getting
their teenagers ready for college. But that's only four years out of their
lives. What about life after college? Shouldn't we be preparing them now for adult life, by teaching them to live and work
ethically and responsibly? By showing them how to handle money? By putting
the goal of financial freedom within their reach?

And what about the teenagers who aren't going to college? Issues like buying a car, obtaining
credit and understanding health insurance become more urgent for those who
will soon finish homeschooling and tackle that first full-time job.

Parents’ Role

Parents' Preparation

Parents will find they don't need much preparation time to use Life Prep for
Homeschooled Teenagers. Once
they've obtained the required resources and provided access to research
tools, all that remains is to customize Life Prep to their specific teenager.

Customizing the
Curriculum

Customizing Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers is easy. The book explains how to
customize this curriculum based on whether your teenager is work-bound or
college-bound. Your teenager's specific interests and goals are also
considered.

Parent-Friendly

Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers is a parent-friendly book written by a
veteran homeschool parent. She originally designed it for use with her
work-bound teenage daughter. The following year, she revised it to use with
her college-bound teenage son. That's why Life Prep for
Homeschooled Teenagers contains what you need no matter what your teenager's
post-homeschool plans may be.

Work-bound

Try finding a book about homeschooling work-bound teenagers.
It's not easy! Most homeschooling books are geared toward preparing
homeschoolers for college. But not all homeschooled teenagers want to go to
college.

There are many bright homeschoolers who would prefer to work
after they've finished homeschooling than to spend four years studying.
Often, their parents agree with their decision. Increasing numbers of
homeschooling parents are starting to question the wisdom of sending their
offspring away for an expensive college education, in light of the lowered
educational and behavioral standards at some colleges and universities.

Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenager provides ample preparation
for work-bound teenagers. They have more immediate needs than college-bound
teenagers. They may need a car right away so they can drive to work. Once
they start working, they'll need to know about health insurance and tax
withholding. And after they've had a chance to save up some money, they'll
want to move out on their own. They'll need to know how to find an affordable
place to live. All of these needs are addressed in Life Prep for Homeschooled
Teenagers.

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Projects and
Assignments

Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers includes step-by-step
projects that guide teenagers to an understanding of practical financial
matters. It also includes reading and writing assignments that require them
to think seriously about their goals for their personal lives, and how they
will integrate their values and their work.

College-bound

College-bound teenagers study college-preparatory subjects such
as Advanced Math and foreign languages, but they also need to prepare
themselves to handle challenges to their worldview by college professors and
fellow students, and to get along with people of different backgrounds. Life
Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers provides reading assignments that will
encourage them to do just that.

In addition, homeschoolers headed for college need to know how
to write a college application essay. Once at college, they'll need to be
able to handle the temptation of credit cards (many of today's college
students graduate with massive credit card debt in addition to their college
loan debt).

After graduation, they'll be faced with all the hurdles that
come with adulthood, including obtaining health insurance, renting or buying
a place to live, and handling their finances responsibly. The step-by-step
projects in Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers provide instruction on those
topics and many others.

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Life Prep for Homeschooled Teenagers

SECOND
EDITION

This expanded version
includes everything in the original

Life Prep for Homeschooled
Teenagers

plus:

·The
Financial Freedom Project. This addition to the Project List is based on a workshop
Barbara Frank presented to a group of homeschooled teenagers at the March
2006 InHome Convention in suburban Chicago. It compares the lives of two
fictional teens and illustrates how the choices they make in their youth
eventually affect their freedom as young adults. This project includes a list
of questions for your teen to answer after reading the selection.

·A new section, For
Parents,
includes Part-time Work for Teenagers and Credit Cards.These two selections
provide you, the parent, with food for thought about two important subjects
looming in your teenager’s future.

Life Prep for Homeschooling
Teenagers is a fabulous starting place for
any panicking parent of a teen. I know. I am one of those panicking parents.

As talk around the house turns to driving and plans for the future, as a
homeschooling mom I wonder if we have focused too much on the reading and
math. As I look at my growing kids, I'm wondering if diagramming sentences is
a good lesson for life or should we focus on balancing a checkbook?

Thankfully, Barbara Frank has blazed that trail and written a book to to share
her advice. Life Prep for
Homeschooling Teenagers is laid out in an easy
to read fashion, with information for the work-bound teenager as well as the
college-bound teenager.

Personally, I was impressed with the reading list included in this book.
The list is just the sort of "out of the box" reading list that I
was looking for to fill in some educational gaps. It's easy to focus on books
that colleges consider to be "the classics" but Ms. Frank's reading
list covers books ranging from Having Our Say: The Delaney Sisters' First 100 Years to the PBS video series Affluenza (which I have seen and enjoyed).

For me, the best part of Life Prep was the projects.
Written in a workbook type format, this section allows teens to dream big,
then springs a little reality on them. Got a teen looking at a fancy car?
Have them explore price comparison, car purchasing and securing insurance
using the study prompts found in the book. Got a teen dreaming of a job? Have
them look at taxes to see just how big that paycheck might end up
being.

If you have a teen you want to prepare them for all aspects of
grown-up life. That can be a stressful thought. For me, I'm hoping to relax a
little, enjoy my years with my teen and rely on Barbara Frank's Life Prep for Homeschooled
Teenagers.